Cognition and crime : offender decision making and script analyses

Preface, Derek B. Cornish, 1. The reasoning criminal: Twenty-five years on, Benoit Leclerc and Richard Wortley, 2. What are violent offenders thinking? Richard Felson, 3. How burglars decide on targets: A computer-based scenario approach, Ross Homel, Stuart MacIntyre, and Richard Wortley, 4. The risks and rewards of motor vehicle theft: Implications for criminal persistence, Heith Copes and Michael Cherbonneau, 5. The rational choice perspective and the phenomenon of stalking: An examination of sex differences in behaviours, rationales, situational precipitators and feelings, Carleen Thompson and Benoit Leclerc, 6. Interpersonal scripts and victim reaction in child sexual abuse: A quantitative analysis of the offender-victim interchange Benoit Leclerc, Stephen Smallbone and Richard Wortley, 7. Drug dealing: Amsterdam's Red Light district, Scott Jacques and Wim Bernasco, 8. Human trafficking for sexual exploitation in Italy, Ernesto Savona, Luca Giommoni and Marina Mancuso, 9. Script analysis of corruption in public procurement, Marco Zanella, 10. Cigarette smuggling and terrorism financing: A script approach, Alexandra Hiropoulos, Joshua Freilich, Steven Chermak and Graeme Newman, 11. Script analysis of the transnational illegal market in endangered species: Dream and reality, William Moreto and Ronald V. Clarke, 12. New developments in script analysis for situational crime prevention: Moving beyond offender scripts, Benoit Leclerc, 13. Rational choice and offender decision making: Lessons from the cognitive sciences, Richard Wortley.